Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...limit the damage at home, the Administration announced that it would bail out U.S. farmers and exporters from their unfulfilled Soviet grain contracts. The Government will offer some of the grain to hungry Third World nations, use some in a stepped-up gasohol program, and store the remainder until it can be sold without disrupting markets. The price tag for the program may top $4 billion, including the cost of the exporters' contracts, storage fees, and extra support loans to farmers...
These actions were only the latest in an escalating series of retaliatory moves. Carter officially requested the Senate to postpone any further consideration of the U.S.-Soviet treaty to limit strategic arms, once the chief symbol of superpower detente. The U.S. and nearly 50 other countries then called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to condemn the latest Soviet aggression. That meeting convened on Saturday. And the U.S. summoned Ambassador Thomas J. Watson Jr. home from Moscow for consultations. (Not even during the crisis triggered by the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956 and of Czechoslovakia...
...SALT II freeze on MIRVing, it would also jeopardize the U.S. mobile MX missile -which is supposed to replace the vulnerable stationary ICBMS-before it even gets off the drawing board. For the MX to be sure of surviving a Soviet first strike, there must be a strict limit on the number of warheads that the Soviets could throw at the MX. A year ago, the Soviets stayed out of the Vietnam-Chinese border war. One reason, say Soviet officials and American Kremlinologists alike, was that the Kremlin did not want to scuttle SALT during the final months...
Both the Commodity Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade have been slow to awaken to the disruptive potential of a silver price explosion. To limit speculation in the metal, the New York market belatedly has sharply increased the margin requirement for investors. Since November, the Chicago market has limited to 600 per day the number of futures contracts that any individual can hold at one time...
...restricting the spread of weapons-grade plutonium is to limit the spread of nuclear breeder reactors, which produce plutonium, and reprocessing plants, which extract plutonium from the spent fuel rods of conventional reactors. President Carter has tried to pursue this policy--in exactly the wrong manner. Many harder hit by OPEC's price hikes than any industrialized country, less developed nations, see nuclear power as the only hope for attaining energy self-sufficiency. These had depended upon the United States to develop the breeder reactor and nuclear fuel reprocessing technologies for them to guarantee a future supply of nuclear fuel...